About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). My advisor is Jiawei Han. Currently, I am visiting Princeton NLP Group, working with Danqi Chen. I am grateful for being supported by the Google PhD fellowship since 2021.

I will join the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia (UVA) as an assistant professor in January 2024. I am looking for PhD students! Please send me an email with your CV and transcripts if you are interested in working with me (I will read all emails but I do apologize for not being able to respond to each of them)!

Research

I am broadly interested in the fields of natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), and data mining. I am especially passionate about the following research directions (with some past work as examples):

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Education

  • Ph.D. (Expected 2023) in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Advisor: Prof. Jiawei Han

  • M.S. (2019) in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Advisor: Prof. Jiawei Han, [Thesis]

  • B.S. (2017) in Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Graduated with Highest Honor & Bronze Tablet
    Advisor: Prof. Sayan Mitra

Contact

  • Email: yumeng5[at]illinois[dot]edu

  • Office: Room 1113, Thomas M. Siebel Center, 201 N. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801